2021年8月12日 星期四

尼希米記2:11-20

 

2:11 我到了耶路撒冷,在那裡住了三日。
2:12
我夜間起來,有幾個人也一同起來;但上帝使我心裡要為耶路撒冷做甚麼事,我並沒有告訴人。除了我騎的牲口以外,也沒有別的牲口在我那裡。
2:13
當夜我出了谷門,往野狗井去(野狗:或譯龍),到了糞廠門,察看耶路撒冷的城牆,見城牆拆毀,城門被火焚燒。
2:14
我又往前,到了泉門和王池,但所騎的牲口沒有地方過去。
2:15
於是夜間沿溪而上,察看城牆,又轉身進入谷門,就回來了。
2:16
我往哪裡去,我做甚麼事,官長都不知道。我還沒有告訴猶大平民、祭司、貴冑、官長,和其餘做工的人。
2:17
以後,我對他們說:「我們所遭的難,耶路撒冷怎樣荒涼,城門被火焚燒,你們都看見了。來吧,我們重建耶路撒冷的城牆,免得再受凌辱!」
2:18
我告訴他們我上帝施恩的手怎樣幫助我,並王對我所說的話。他們就說:「我們起來建造吧!」於是他們奮勇做這善工。
2:19
但和倫人參巴拉,並為奴的亞捫人多比雅和阿拉伯人基善聽見就嗤笑我們,藐視我們,說:「你們做甚麼呢?要背叛王嗎?」
2:20
我回答他們說:「天上的上帝必使我們亨通。我們作他僕人的,要起來建造;你們卻在耶路撒冷無分、無權、無紀念。」

 

  11 I went to Jerusalem, and after staying there three days 12 I set out during the night with a few others. I had not told anyone what my God had put in my heart to do for Jerusalem. There were no mounts with me except the one I was riding on.

13 By night I went out through the Valley Gate toward the Jackal[a] Well and the Dung Gate, examining the walls of Jerusalem, which had been broken down, and its gates, which had been destroyed by fire. 14 Then I moved on toward the Fountain Gate and the King’s Pool, but there was not enough room for my mount to get through; 15 so I went up the valley by night, examining the wall. Finally, I turned back and reentered through the Valley Gate. 16 The officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, because as yet I had said nothing to the Jews or the priests or nobles or officials or any others who would be doing the work.

17 Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in: Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned with fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, and we will no longer be in disgrace.” 18 I also told them about the gracious hand of my God on me and what the king had said to me.

They replied, “Let us start rebuilding.” So they began this good work.

19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official and Geshem the Arab heard about it, they mocked and ridiculed us. “What is this you are doing?” they asked. “Are you rebelling against the king?”

20 I answered them by saying, “The God of heaven will give us success. We his servants will start rebuilding, but as for you, you have no share in Jerusalem or any claim or historic right to it.”

 

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    尼希米對同胞的呼召是:「我們起來建造吧!」

 

    同樣今日我們看到教會的光景是荒涼,我們所餅受的一句話也是:「我們起來建造吧!」

 

    讓我們與其批評,倒不如「我們起來建造吧!」

 

 

 

 

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